PC Mag reviews the Sharp Actius MP30 and writes - ‘Most multimedia-oriented notebooks these days are nine-pound beasts that aim to supplant a traditional desktop PC. Not so the Sharp Actius MP30. This svelte 2.8-pound beauty will have little trouble attracting attention with its cool, clean, almost-Applesque design. And it won’t have much trouble keeping [...]

Pocket-lint.co.uk has a review on the Toshiba Tecra A4 saying such things as:
‘The styling of the black, toughened-plastic, chassis is attractive in an understated way. The look is more akin to an IBM ThinkPad than anything else in the Toshiba range. The build quality is exceptionally high, with Toshiba putting extra attention into the thick [...]